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If you'll leave these drawings, I'll think them over and call you up again in a few days." At Judge Cutler's suggestion, Archey had been elected treasurer to take Burdon's place. Mary took the plans into his office and showed them to him. They were still discussing them, sitting at opposite sides of his flat-top desk, when the twelve o'clock whistle blew.
The judge promised to be down at once, and Mary turned to her mail. Near the bottom she found a letter addressed in Burdon's writing. It was unstamped and had evidently been left at the office. The date-line simply said "Midnight." It was a long letter, some of it clear enough and some of it obscure. Mary was puzzling over it when Judge Cutler and Hutchins entered.
"Where's Burdon?" she asked. "He wasn't feeling very well," said Uncle Stanley after a long look at his son's desk, " a sort of headache. I told him he had better go home." And every morning for the rest of the week, when she saw Uncle Stanley, she gave him such an innocent look and said, "How's Burdon's head this morning? Any better?"
Stephenson characterised the bridge as "a structure which, as regards its proportions and the small quantity of material employed in its construction, will probably remain unrivalled." The same year in which Burdon's Bridge was erected at Sunderland, Telford was building his first iron bridge over the Severn at Buildwas, at a point about midway between Shrewsbury and Bridgenorth.
Susie seized once more upon Arthur Burdon's attention. 'Now please look at the man who is sitting next to Mr Warren. Arthur saw a tall, dark fellow with strongly-marked features, untidy hair, and a ragged black moustache. 'That is Mr O'Brien, who is an example of the fact that strength of will and an earnest purpose cannot make a painter.
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